Community Ownership of Renewable Energy Projects Energy Transition towards a Cellular Smart Grid

Community – Grid Edge – Flexibility & Power Quality

July 5, 2016 Presented By:

Dudley Stewart C. Eng.

Building the Smart Grid - Smart Cell by Smart Cell: Through Smart Community & Local Energy Balancing and Community-based Grid Support Systems

United to break through the barriers to:- • Bring the Digital Energy Revolution to Communities • Empower Energy Citizens • Build Regulated Smart Community Energy • Enable higher-levels of Stable Renewable Energy (RE) Penetration • Enable local small-scale Inertia-rich Flexible Plant • Develop, from Small-scale, Cellular Smart Grid Systems • Provide Structured Test Beds for Community Energy Advancement

Thank You for the Invite to Speak

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Who are we?

Why should we speak for Community Energy?

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Although it is the policy of the E.U. to advance Active Energy Citizens through Community Energy Projects. Renewable Energy Communities continue to face huge challenges. Our first job has been to demystify the “Energy–Community Axis”. Our findings were predictable …..

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Communities in Energy have become powerful in the empowerment of Active Energy Citizenship, Energy Saving & Production, Public Awareness and, sometimes, Active Proponents of large-scale Energy Infrastructure.

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Nonetheless virtually all Community Energy Projects suffer from Economy of Scale and Investment Challenges – These are High Barriers.

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Unregulated Distributed Generation can cause disturbances in the Distribution Network and Grid Stability Issues – this curtails advancement.

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Our Mission is to unite all willing forces to develop and equip communities with the means to play the central role in the Future De-carbonisation of Energy – Flexibility and Balancing:

• The Community Energy Utility will enable communities to radically improve local Power Quality and increasing Renewable Energy Production while supporting Grid Stability.

• The Community holds the secret to Energy Security and Stability – Flexibility & Balancing Power – more valuable than energy itself – Community Market Power made possible through intermeshed local Smart Grid Cells powered by the Digital Energy Revolution.

• Urban Centres, Cities and Local Authorities are the key enablers of this Community Energy Revolution.

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Early Cellular Smart Grid •Replication of Smart Grid Test Bed into 30 additional locations across Ireland. •Automation by one shared Transactive Energy Services Trading Platform •Aggregating Power Balancing & Flexibility Services on a National Level •Directly connected to the System Operators providing intelligent distributed data and forecasting information in in real-time – Advanced Data Analytics.

2050 – Near Zero Carbon Energy Is there a Community Solution?

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Can Communities create the Secret Ingredients to Tip the Balance in

favor of Success?

The Situation Today in Ireland • Ireland, like many other countries, is facing into a period of severe Renewable

Energy related Power Quality & Capacity Complications.

• Complications which will see Growth in Renewable Energy causing severe problems for the Grid.

• Connections are getting harder to obtain and more costly.

• Demand Response is advancing to optimize RE utilization.

• Demand Response is itself curtailed by congestion problems.

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• The time has come for more intelligence-driven solutions. • Through Regulated Community Action local Generation can be power matched locally –

moving to higher levels of optimization. • Prosumer groups are being equipped, on the Test Bed, with advanced digital metering,

microprocessor and other devices to enable concerted real-time action as stabilized Smart Grid Cells – now the race is on to refine and go to scale – increasing inter-operability and open API Access are key goals.

• Much of the gear is there already – but can they talk to each other.

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Behind-the-Meter (Grid-Edge) – Communities of Willing Prosumers – Interconnected by Internet protocol Prosumer Smart Meter I/O Power Matching Controller Units enabling

Smart Real-Time Local Electricity Power Matching – Local Consumption/Recycling of Local Clean Electricity in Real-time – Forming Intelligent Smart Micro Energy Cells

intermeshed nationally – providing valuable Grid Support & Rapid Response.

Network Substation Area Bringing together Willing Prosumers In Local Areas

Comms to TSO + Market

Micro-Energy Working with the Market

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I-SEM

Smart Micro Energy Clusters

Local Community Auto-Producer (own-needs) Groups – Regulated by Contract

SEM

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Power Matched Balancing No Exports

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Phase 2 WIP Oldbawn D24 Community Centre GAA Club NS School 19 Prosumers

Phase 1 WIP Jobstown-Bawnlea D24 2 Community Centres Education Centre Leisure Centre 31 Prosumers

WIP 2015 Whitechurch D24 Community Centre Library 57 Prosumers

WIP 2015 Perrystown D24 Community Centre

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Micro Grid Stabiliser

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MODEL CITY 2016 Tallaght South Dublin

Model Community Energy Utility Smart Grid Cell Clusters

Migro Grid Stabilisers Community System Services

Automated Energy Services Trading Platform

Biomass CHP District Heating, Solar PV, Fuel Cell + Energy Storage & Recycling

The Energy Trading System

Prosumer ‘Smart Building’

Client

Wholesale Market µGrid

Metering Infra-Structure

Energy Trading Server

Windows, Android etc

Storage Heaters

(e.g. Quantum)

Thermostats (e.g. Nest,

Climote, Hive)

µCHP

Quantum

Climote Nest

Hive

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Power Matching Trade

Producer Consumer

Retail Supplier

Wholesale Market

∑Wc ∑Ws

Bill

Prosumer/Community Group Power-matching - Autoproduction

Δ=Ws-Xs

Xs (>Ps)

Δ=Rc-Wc

Rs=Rc

Ps Δ=Xs-Ps

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Community Energy Utility Services Co.

(MEGA)

Settlement

Micro-Producer Prosumer

Consumer Prosumer

Retail Supplier

Community Energy Utility Services Co.

(MEGA)

Wholesale Market

∑Wc ∑Ws

∑Ps

∑(Xs-Ps) ∑Rs=∑Rc Retail Bill

Payment Cheque

Payment Cheque

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MPOWER

Breakdown of Retail Price

Local Power Balancing Services

Flexibility & Balancing Martket

3. With statutory, regulatory and public funding support it can happen on time. It is worthy of full concerted support because it is the fair and sustainable way forward for Communities.

Sustainable Community Ownership

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Community Energy Grid Support Services – is the Key to Grid Resiliency - future Near-Zero Carbon Energy system:

1. Focus on the Highest Value Service that Community Renewable Energy can offer – Flexibility.

2. Develop Community-driven Grid & Network Balancing Services to overcome Economy of Scale and Connection Issues.

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Thank You

Micro Electricity Generation Association (MEGA)

info@megamicro.org

www.megamicro.org

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FLEXIBILITY “Discovering the hidden value of energy flexibility - To help address these issues, grid operators are developing smart grid strategies. An important part of this is engaging the help of energy consumers to dynamically match their demand against available grid capacity. This energy flexibility is a valuable resource for both you and your energy supplier.”

Schneider 2016

“As power systems evolve to incorporate more renewable energy and responsive demand, regulators and system operators are recognizing that flexibility across all elements of power systems must be addressed by ensuring: • Flexible generation: power plants that can ramp up and down quickly and efficiently and run at low output levels (i.e., deep turn-downs) • Flexible transmission: transmission networks with limited bottlenecks and sufficient capacity to access a broad range of balancing resources, including sharing between neighbouring power systems, and with smart network technologies that better optimize transmission usage • Flexible demand-side resources: incorporation of smart grids to enable demand response, storage, responsive distributed generation, and other means for customers to respond to market signals or direct load control” Power Partnership 2016 24

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GROWING NEED FOR ELECTRICITY SYSTEM FLEXIBILITY

AUTHORS National Renewable Energy Laboratory › Jaquelin Cochran, Mackay Miller, Owen Zinaman, Michael Milligan, Doug Arent, Bryan Palmintier University College Dublin › Mark O’Malley International Energy Agency › Simon Mueller EPRI › Eamonn Lannoye, Aidan Tuohy Northwest Power and Conservation Council › Ben Kujala Energinet.dk › Morten Sommer VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland › Hannele Holttinen, Juha Kiviluoma Power System Operation Corporation › S.K. Soonee

Solving Flexibility Growth Challenge

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IOT ENERGY CANOPY Smart Cities & Communities Horizon 20 20 - 2016 MODEL CITY TALLAGHT Ireland